Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Live your life and forget your age.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Nature is not human-hearted.

My art and profession is to live.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.